“It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.”

“Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”

“... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.”

“Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath.”

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.”